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  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jul 25, 2025

    Introduction When building a .NET web application, it's common to use the combination of UseExceptionHandler and UseStatusCodePagesWithReExecute in your Startup.cs to serve user-friendly error pages: app.UseExceptionHandler("/errorhandler/500");...

  • Posted on: Jul 22, 2025

    Optimizely CMS natively doesn't support branch templates, a concept known from different content management systems. Branch templates are useful if we want to help content authors to automate repetetive tasks with multiple content items, for examp...

  • Posted on: Jul 21, 2025

    By default, Optimizely Forms uses browser cookies to track submissions and updates the existing submission if the same user submits the form again. While this behavior works well in most scenarios, we had a custom business requirement : for certai...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jul 21, 2025

    If you also hate false errors in your request logs, let’s clean up one path at a time. Here is how to avoid logging 404 errors caused by Outlook.

  • Posted on: Jul 21, 2025

    For those new to the series, you may want to read parts one , two , and three first. At the end of my last post I mentioned I had two more ideas to explore: Render some purely Visual Builder content Render the whole thing dynamically rather than...

  • Posted on: Jul 21, 2025

    If you are implementing Search & Navigation (a.k.a. FIND) but cannot use the ‘Unified Search’, you will need to implement your own server-side tracking. There’s a number of blogs out there that touch on the subject but many are outdated and none...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jul 20, 2025

    In many business scenarios, calculating the Order Total involves complex logic, such as dynamic handling fees based on items, packages, or custom rules. The default IOrderGroupCalculator implementation in DefaultOrderGroupCalculator may not suffic...

  • Posted on: Jul 20, 2025

    We had a requirement where Report and Dashboard menus were needed only for specific roles /users Or Admins — but not for editors . Below is default view for editors where  you can see these menus: But required view is:  1.  To achieve above, we...